Salt Lake County announces the “Request for Proposals” for the Community Development Block Grant and the Emergency Solutions Grant Programs for fiscal year 2013-2014 available November 5, 2012.

Salt Lake County Community Resources and Development (CRD) is providing proposal materials to Nonprofit Agencies, Community Organizations, Faith-based Organizations, County Agencies and other government agencies for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) federal grant programs. The Priorities for funding will be Affordable Housing, Homeless Activities, Essential Social Services and Economic Development. Please be sure to read all proposal materials as they explain the requirements of each grant. The deadline for submission of proposals for the CDBG and ESG is Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM.

This is a competitive proposal process. All proposals will be reviewed by Citizen Review Panels, which will prioritize and make funding recommendations. The County Mayor will ultimately decide which proposals are funded and at what funding level. These funds should be available beginning July 1, 2013, subject to HUD’s approval of Salt Lake County’s 2013-14 Action Plan and Congress passing a budget for 2013.

The proposals, guidelines and instructions are available on the County’s website at http://www.crd.slco.org/communityDev/PublicNoticesComment.html. Proposal materials are also available at the County Government Center located at 2001 South State Street, Room S2100. Physical access parking and entrances are located on the east side of both the north and south buildings.

This challenge is a multidisciplinary call
to innovators and developers to create a mobile device-optimized tool
that engages and empowers women to improve the prevention and treatment
of breast, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer in underserved and
minority communities and interfaces with provider electronic health
records (EHRs). The tool will achieve the following:

Provide general information regarding preventive and screening
services for breast and gynecologic cancers—including, but not limited
to, benefits, timing, scheduling, and location.

Allow for the interface with patient health records or
provider-sponsored patient portals to provide specific reminders and
trigger electronic health record-based clinical decision support
regarding the timing of preventive services.

Support the storage, viewing, and exchange of complex patient care
plans. In particular, the tool will help strengthen communication among
provider care teams, possibly spread out across large geographic
locations, to afford optimal remote follow-up (e.g., be able to send
patient information to electronic health records via Direct).

Support patient engagement and care giver support to help patients
and/or their caregivers keep track of complex care plans, such as
connections to community health workers, promotores de salud, or patient
navigators.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is soliciting
written comments regarding new objectives proposed to be added to
Healthy People 2020 since its launch in December 2010. Healthy People
2020 will provide opportunities for public input periodically throughout
the decade to ensure that Healthy People 2020 reflects current public
health priorities and public input.

Public participation helps shape Healthy People 2020, its
framework, objectives, and targets. During the first phase of planning
for Healthy People 2020, we asked for your comments on the vision,
mission, and implementation. Those comments helped set the framework for
Healthy People 2020. The public was also invited to submit comments on
proposed Healthy People 2020 objectives, which helped shape the final
set of objectives.

During this round of public comment, we would like your input on
proposed new objectives to be added to the following Topic Areas: (1)
Educational and Community-Based Programs and (2) Social Determinants of
Health. These proposed objectives were developed by Topic Area
workgroups, which are led by various agencies within the Federal
government. They have been reviewed by a Federal Interagency Workgroup
on Healthy People 2020 and are presented now for your review and
comment.

You are also invited to suggest additional objectives for
consideration that address critical public health issues within the
existing 42 Healthy People 2020 Topic Areas.

Monday, October 22, 2012

A funding opportunity is available through the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), Office on Women’s Health (OWH).

If you would like to submit a
proposal for the Safety and Health for Older Women funding opportunity, please
complete an Request for Proposals (RFP) and email to John Snow Inc (JSI) by November 15,
2012 at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time. For a copy of the RFP and for more information, contact John Snow, Inc. (JSI) at owhapplication@jsi.com

Please note, proposals will be not be
accepted by the Office on Women’s Health.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

**Bid, Responses to each bullet with qualifications, and CV
are due by Friday, October 26, 2012 5pm to nicolebissonette@utah.gov or fax
801-538-9495

SpecificationsThe Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program is looking for an
individual to serve as a consultant from November 2012 to June 29, 2013 and
possibly beyond, to assist in development and training of Affordable Care Act
(ACA) provisions to Utah worksites.

The individual would serve as a content expert on the
ACA.They will need to be able to
provide guidance on the development of the training and materials and assist in
presenting the training to Utah worksites.

Phase I:The individual would work closely (weekly or
biweekly basis) with the HDSPP to determine the scope of the training. Phase II:The individual would work closely with HDSPP
to develop the training and materials.Phase III: The individual would work
closely with HDSPP to present the training and serve as the content expert for
questions.

Incumbent Requirements:

·Bachelors degree or higher.

·Expert knowledge of and understanding of the
Affordable Care Act provisions in relation to health insurance and preventive
services.

·Extensive experience presenting to groups.

·Ability to work well with a team to develop a
project.

·Excellent written and oral skills.

·Excellent organizational skills and timeliness

**This will be a fee for service contract. 1 year with 2
renewals.

Notes:

We anticipate this project to take a year beginning November
2012- October 2013. We would like an
individual willing to work on additional aspects of the project in years 2 -3
if we determine expansion is needed.These activities may include expansion of training, redevelopment of
trainings, and evaluation of dissemination.Funding for this project is
dependent on availability and approval from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.

Science
agencies across the U.S. federal government announced the launch of the Spanish
version of Science.gov - http://1.usa.gov/Qq433s.

Ciencia.Science.gov
provides the same breadth and depth in science search as does Science.gov,
covering over 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science
information including research and development results from 17 organizations
within 13 federal science agencies. Free access is provided to over 55
scientific databases and more than 2,100 selected scientific web sites.
Integrating Microsoft’s Translator, Spanish-language queries to
Ciencia.Science.gov initiate searches of U.S. databases and web sites with
results appearing in Spanish. This represents an innovative use of existing
commercial technology to broaden public access to federal science
information.

In
addition to offering expanded access to the Spanish-speaking public, Science.gov
now includes new multimedia content and additional features to help users find
the science information they need. For the first time, R&D video is
available from the Department of Energy (DOE), MedlinePlus (NIH), the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, (NASA) and the National Science Foundation
(NSF). Images from the Library of Congress have been added to the image search
that is now integrated under a new multimedia tab on the results page. Search
enhancements include visual representations of topical information in an
easy-to-use touch and dial format.

The
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research on Women’s Health
(ORWH), has created the 52 Weeks for Women’s Health application as a guide for
women interested in learning more about their health anytime and
anywhere.

The
app, available on the Android and IOS platforms, lists 52 alphabetical health
topics, one for each week of the year. The application aims to promote healthy
lifestyles by offering practical strategies for women to use each day. The app
also includes other features.

The
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice has just released two new toolkits
–Effective Adult Learning: A Toolkit
for Teaching Adults and Effective Presentations: A Toolkit For
Engaging an Audience.

“Effective
Adult Learning” covers key topics, such as defining your audience, choosing the
right instructional methods, facilitating effectively, and others. Included
is in-depth instruction on how to write learning objectives and avoid common
mistakes.

“Effective
Adult Learning” includes tools and templates for developing training for adults.
Highlighted boxes throughout the document provide more experienced teachers and
trainers with a refresher on the topic.

“Effective
Presentations” covers key topics, such as how to choose your material, how to
tell a story, how to speak effectively, and how to make effective presentation
slides. An accompanying PowerPoint slide set offers helpful diagrams and
displays that can be easily customized for your presentation.

According
to the National Cancer Institute, about 227,000 American women will be diagnosed
with breast cancer this year. While breast cancer is diagnosed 10 percent less
frequently in African American women than white women, African American women
are 40 percent more likely to die from the disease. Similarly, Hispanic women
are 30 percent less likely to have breast cancer as white women, but they also
face a higher risk of dying from the disease. Early detection – including
clinical and self exams and yearly mammograms over age 40 – is key to increasing
the survival rate.

Monday, October 15, 2012

On Thursday, October 18, starting promptly at 12:25 p.m., in Room 255,
Orson Spencer Hall (OSH), Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia will be the
topic of the Hinckley Institute of Politics weekly forum.

Latinos and African-Americans are 1 and half to twos
more likely to get Alzheimer's then the general white populations. Find out
more- make plans to attend.

How do we implement the Utah State Plan with its 5 overarching goals, 18
specific recommendations and 99 ambitious strategies? The Forum features a
panel, including Senator Karen Morgan and Dr. Norman Foster. Local and national
leaders of the Alzheimer's Association will be present, including a national
Alzheimer's Association policy leader from Washington DC, Matthew Baumgart.
Manuel Romero, a former member of the Utah State Plan Task Force will moderate
the panel. Questions form the audience will be addressed. Should Utah invest in
an outpatient gero-psychiatric telehealth system? Should dementia care training
for direct care workers be implemented? Should Utah initiate an endangered
persons advisory (an Amber Alert system for disoriented seniors)? How do
advocates engage legislators and others in a public-private partnership to
implement an action plan for nearly 50,000 persons with Alzheimer's disease or
a related dementia and their family members? Please join us to become a part of
the solution at this critical juncture.

Pay parking in the Student Union lot is suggested.This
is an open forum that will include attendance of University of Utah students.
See you Thursday!